The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SocialFest was a very code-intensive week for the Calinda software development team. We arrived at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus at 8AM, coded non-stop until 10PM, just to drive back to the hotel and resume coding...

By Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO, Leverage Software
I'm Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO of Leverage Software -- we're an on-demand social networking platform that companies use to connect their employees and customers with one another. We tend to be particularly...

By Jim Hsia, Loqu8 VP Marketing
Loqu8 was founded on an innovative learning paradigm called “augmented learning.” Instead of traditional rote memorization or simulated learning, the company developed an engine to instantly show related...

By Alon Novy, Founder & CTO, Liaise
What a week it has been! This Monday, as we arrived at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus to compete with 6 other Microsoft BizSpark partner startups at SharePoint 2010 SocialFest, I confess that our motto...

This post has been written by Loic le Meur (@Loic), Loic is the founder and CEO of Seesmic, a software company that makes one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook social software clients. Loic also founded and hosts the #1 tech event in Europe, LeWeb...

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 .
Huddle , a London, UK-based software...

By Alpa Agarwal
In the spring of 2005, Sam Altman, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford, had an epiphany as he walked out of class. Turning to his friends, classmates, and eventual co-founders Alok Deshpande and Nick Sivo, Sam asked, “Wouldn...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation
From innovation in Latin America to Europe. In this column, I cover my travels to Israel, France and the UK. In the next column I’ll cover...

By Cliff Reeves
There was a thought-provoking and balanced post on this subject on ChannelWeb Tuesday. It makes the point that Sharepoint's growth and adoption mirrors that of Lotus Notes in the nineties. Like Notes, Sharepoint provides an easily...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation
The Answer May Surprise You
By now, everyone knows that Microsoft server technologies run at scale. Some of the world’s largest SAP implementations...

By Alpa Agarwal
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 .
Cortex Intelligence...

By Alpa Agarwal
Piryx, non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark will hold a fundraising get-together for Haiti, Piryxtopia Charity Bash , at SXSW. Piryx, a global social fund-raising platform, will help by making their service available for...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation
The coolest companies under the tree.
Going into the holidays, on the heels of two other columns on Microsoft's investment in startups and...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation
How One Thing Leads to Another
One thing leads to another. Those are actually lyrics from a popular song in the '80s: “you told me something...

By Cliff Reeves
Starhome http://www.starhome.com/ … Starhome is a mature (established late 1999) and very-well funded firm with over 120 MNO customers worldwide., and a very close relationship with Vodaphone. They are attempting to bridge...

By Alpa Agarwal
It no longer requires a big budget to design, develop and distribute a commercial, online game. Wild Pockets, a spin off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is democratizing game development and...

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 .
Tim Uy and Jim Hsia’s eyes...

By Alpa Agarwal
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 .
In this article...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation
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It’s all about the user today. Businesses will compete and win when they can present...

By Alpa Agarwal
Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 .
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By Cliff Reeves
I made my first trip to Israel the week of Oct 15th, and spoke at the VC Summit on the morning of the17th. The event was coordinated and planned by my colleague, Barak Shein .
The morning session was limited to VCs and then opened...

By Alpa Agarwal
SXSW , MIX10 and DEMOSpring are exciting opportunities for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got a variety of fun activities...

By Alpa Agarwal
SXSW is an exciting opportunity for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got lots of fun BizSpark activities at SXSW lined up...

By Cliff Reeves
Yesterday’s post, BizSpark 101 , discussed why we developed BizSpark, what’s in it, how to get it and the key BizSpark roles: Microsoft Champs, Network Partners, and Startups. Today I’ll go into a little more detail...